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News November 2009

See Motorola's Rami Levy compelling presentation at the Chicago Collective Intelligence Summit titled Socialized Innovation: Tapping into Motorola's Collective Intelligence powered by Consensus Point.

Breakthrough at MIT? “Now big-picture thinkers, within the industry and outside it, are re-examining every stage of drug development — from molecule to market — in an effort to foster faster innovation. It’s a holistic approach, called “systems thinking,” that originated in methods that engineers used to streamline projects in the aeronautics and automotive industries.”   

The 2010 PM community event calendar is nearing completion. Join the popular PM Cluster Google and LinkedIn Groups to be the first to get the announcements. 

The 2010 PM community event calendar is nearing completion. Join the popular PM Cluster Google and LinkedIn Groups to be the first to get the announcements. 

New Open Prediction Market R&D Discussion Group sponsored by NewsFutures.

News October 2009

About the Collective Intelligence Summit.

The PM Cluster sponsors and recommends SuperNova. Best in the business for breakthrough industry gatherings. Sign-up today. We'll see you there.

Spigit raises $10M in capital. Paul Pluschkell, Co-Founder & CEO, to join the Chicago Collective Intelligence and Prediction Markets Summit 6 Nov 2009.

MIT, Harvard and Crowdcast Partner to Forecast Success of Breast Cancer Drug Clinical Trials. The Pharmer's Market is now live -- to participate, please visit: http://pharmersmarket.crowdcast.com.

Ingenix to feature The Ingenix Prediction Market, powered by Consensus Point, at the NBGH National Forum on Health, Productivity, and Human Capital.

About the Collective Intelligence Summit Sponsors and Participants.

The previous H1N1 swine flu prediction market has now evolved into the US Influenza Market, which includes new markets addressing other flu-related questions.

InTrade, The Prediction Market, to sponsor the Chicago PM Summit and your Prediction Markets Leaders Luncheon.

News September 2009

Random list of PM Resources, Sites and Articles by Marcus P. Zillman.

Smarter Cities, Smarter Planet: IBM and Spigit are running a series of prediction markets that you can participate in. The objective is to tap the collective wisdom of people around the world. Predict!

CrowdCast, the leading provider of prediction market solutions for collective forecasting, to join the Chicago PM Summit.

Exago Markets to join, sponsor the Chicago PM Summit on Friday 6 November in Chicago, Illinois USA. 

Motorola's Rami Levy to join, sponsor the Chicago PM Summit. Rami will lead a conversation concerning Motorola's achievements and lessons learned with applied enterprise PMs.

Consensus Point and Aurora WDC among sponsors of the biennial Chicago Summit for prediction markets, collective intelligence, Wisdom of Crowds and enterprise forecasting on 6 Nov 2009 at Gleacher Executive Center at the University of Chicago.

Prediction Markets for MBA Courses: Novel Internet-based tools are employed in order to enrich the instruction of theoretical aspects of decision making with hands-on experience and expose the students to these unique tools. One example is the incorporation of online Information Markets that use the financial markets mechanism as an information aggregation and processing engine.

Paul Pluschkell, Co-Founder & CEO of Spigit, to join the Chicago Collective Intelligence and Prediction Markets Summit 6 Nov 2009.

The biennial Chicago Summit for prediction markets, collective intelligence, Wisdom of Crowds and enterprise forecasting is 6 Nov 2009 at Gleacher Executive Center at the University of Chicago. Discount Early-Bird Registration now open.

News August 2009

Visit the Testimonials page to learn what industry leaders, scholars, entrepreneurs and users are saying about your PM Clusters.

"The PM Cluster Website, events and other assets are owned by the international prediction markets communities. Suggestions and improvements are welcome, encouraged and expected. I will see to it personally that all recommendations are implemented promptly and professionally. Thanks for your support!"

- Jennifer Hulett, August 2009

Gartner covers prediction markets in their 2009 Hype Cycle for Social Software. Hype Curve.

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News May 2009

-Journal of Prediction Markets published edition on enterprise/corporate PMs.

-Network World covers How Motorola Uses Prediction Markets to Choose Innovations.

-Prediction Market Industry Association planning meeting in NYC w/Balick, Hanson, Pennock, etc.

-Iowa Electronic Markets introduces H1N1 Swine Influenza Prediction Markets.

-New executive leaders, senior developers and top scientists join prediction market vendors and suppliers.

-Thomas Malone keynotes the capacity PM/CI Summit 24 Apr in NYC with Neumann, Fine, Reeves and others.

-InTrade secures substantial financing round from investors to propel growth and expansion.

-Xpree renames to Crowdcast and expands operations, product development and marketing.

-Microsoft joins Google and Yahoo! In CFTC petition for prediction markets.

-Barney Frank hints of easing banking regulations for online gaming.